BACKGROUND The stepped-care approach, where people with early symptoms of depression are stepped up from low-intensity interventions to higher-level interventions as needed, has the potential to assist many people with mild depressive symptoms. Self-monitoring techniques assist people to understand their mental health symptoms by increasing their emotional self-awareness (ESA) and can be easily...

Abstract Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have been linked to more severe and sustained behavior problems among adolescents. The aims of this study were examine the treatment impact malleability CU adolescents explore potential moderation effects condition sub-typology. A sample 159 (45.9% girls; M age = 14.7 years, SD 1.47) their parents participated in a randomized controlled trial Functional ...

BACKGROUND Loneliness is assumed to peak in early adolescence and to decrease throughout middle and late adolescence, but longitudinal confirmation of this tendency is lacking. Behavioral genetic studies with twin designs have found a significant genetic component for loneliness in children and adults, but no molecular genetic studies have been conducted to reveal the functional polymorphisms i...

This experimental study demonstrates the usefulness of multi-group piece-wise latent growth curve models (LGCM) in clinical research, particularly for assessing and comparing treatment effects. Sixty-two female patients (M age = 28.1; SD = 8.00) with bulimia nervosa were randomly assigned to a) a guided self-change treatment (GSC) involving a self-care manual plus 8 bi-weekly sessions of cognit...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of Nigerian insurance companies using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Because of the unavailability of the required data, the study is limited to ten Nigerian insurance companies for the period of five years from 2008 to 2012. The input employed were commission expenses and management expenses, while premium and investment income...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) and healthy dietary behaviors (HDB) are two well-documented lifestyle factors influencing body mass index (BMI). This study examined 7-year longitudinal associations between changes in PA, HDB, and BMI among adults using a parallel latent growth curve modeling (LGCM). METHODS We used prospective cohort data collected by a private company (SimplyWell LLC, Omah...

Background: Although various types of intimate partner violence (IPV) tend to co-occur, risk factors of each type of IPV may differ. At the same time, most of the existing literature on risk factors of IPV among minorities has used a cross-sectional design and has focused on physical rather than sexual IPV. We conducted the current study to compare Black and Hispanic women for psychological pre...

Previous research has suggested that bribery is more normative in some countries than in others. To understand the underlying process, this paper examines the effects of social norm and gender on bribe-giving behavior. We argue that social norms provide information for strategic planning and impression management, and thus would impact participants' bribe amount. Besides, males are more agentic...